Pakistani mourners flocked to funerals on Tuesday for 74 victims, most of them lawyers, of the bombing of a hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta, and legal organisations staged a nationwide strike in protest.

Communist Party of India (CPI) national secretary D Raja today charged the NDA government with taking "anti-working class" measures in the name of reforms, one example of which was to try and "privatise PSUs like the banking sector".

South Africa's scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday survived an impeachment vote in parliament launched after the constitutional court ruled he had ignored an order to repay state funds spent on his private home.

Pakistan's involvement with jihadi terror groups at the highest level, aimed at using against India in Jammu and Kashmir, has backfired, Pakistan's ex-diplomat Husain Haqqani said today following the deadly terror attack in Lahore.

As both countries "in principle" agreed for cooperation in civil nuclear energy, Japan today cautioned India that it will be "quite natural" for it to review its cooperation if New Delhi goes for a nuclear test.

France paid tribute today to the 130 mostly young people killed while they were enjoying themselves in Paris two weeks ago by Islamist gunmen and suicide bombers in the most deadly attacks the nation has seen since World War Two.

A Bosnian Muslim cleric was sentenced to seven years in jail today for recruiting fighters to join Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, under a new law aimed at stopping people becoming terrorists in the Middle East.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says his company is working on a world without passwords. Face recognition and other biometrics may soon replace the way we access systems he told industry leaders and government officials in Mumbai today.

State Election Commission (SEC) today deregistered 16 state-level political parties in Maharashtra, including the Ramdas Athawale-led RPI faction, for alleged failure to submit income tax returns and audited accounts between 2005 and 2014.